Glasgow photos
Sep. 5th, 2014 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerNone of my Oxford photos turned out very nicely, alas; I have no flare for making architectural photographs interesting. I did get some very nice photos in Glasgow, though! Starting with the Necropolis, because that is almost the first thing we saw in Glasgow while driving out to the hostel. It's a huge cemetery which slopes gently down the side of a hill, evidently on the thought that it will be good for your soul to see as many graves as possible at once.
There are also crypts with door-sized metal gates in front of them. A clear sign that we are too steeped in pop culture is the fact that our immediate reaction was "VAMPIRES."
Apparently putting a traffic cone on this statue's head is a Glasgow tradition. (Glasgow is a very statue-happy city. Not as many naked women as Prague, though.) But someone's been an overachiever here, because the horse has a cone too! Maybe the horse felt left out.
There's a restaurant in Glasgow called the Bothy. What's a good Sutcliffian to do? Of course![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
motetus and I had to go. We were sad to discover it doesn't serve barley bannock!
But it does have...
Haggis! Or rather, haggis with neeps (turnips or parsnips, we never figured out which) and mash (mashed potatoes, of course). I was sort of expecting it to come out as a whole oatmeal-oozing stomach, so this was a welcome relief. In fact, it was probably the best use for oatmeal I've seen outside of a cookie.
We had haggis and salmon appetizers for the entree, and banoffee pie and sticky toffee pudding for dessert (although sadly my dessert pictures are a little blurred). Half dessert, that seems like about the right proportion for a meal!
AND FINALLY. THE MOMENT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR.
It is at once glorious and terrifying. What will happen to the fiddle if he falls??
There are also crypts with door-sized metal gates in front of them. A clear sign that we are too steeped in pop culture is the fact that our immediate reaction was "VAMPIRES."
Apparently putting a traffic cone on this statue's head is a Glasgow tradition. (Glasgow is a very statue-happy city. Not as many naked women as Prague, though.) But someone's been an overachiever here, because the horse has a cone too! Maybe the horse felt left out.
There's a restaurant in Glasgow called the Bothy. What's a good Sutcliffian to do? Of course
motetus and I had to go. We were sad to discover it doesn't serve barley bannock!But it does have...
Haggis! Or rather, haggis with neeps (turnips or parsnips, we never figured out which) and mash (mashed potatoes, of course). I was sort of expecting it to come out as a whole oatmeal-oozing stomach, so this was a welcome relief. In fact, it was probably the best use for oatmeal I've seen outside of a cookie.
We had haggis and salmon appetizers for the entree, and banoffee pie and sticky toffee pudding for dessert (although sadly my dessert pictures are a little blurred). Half dessert, that seems like about the right proportion for a meal!
AND FINALLY. THE MOMENT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR.
It is at once glorious and terrifying. What will happen to the fiddle if he falls??
